Section 16B.51

Subdivision 1. Supervision by commissioner. The
commissioner shall supervise and control the making and
distribution of all reports and other publications of all kinds
issued by the state and state agencies when not otherwise
prescribed by law. The commissioner shall also prescribe the
manner and form of issuing reports required by sections 8.08;
16A.50; 35.03; 129D.02, subdivision 5; 256.01; 299C.18; and
360.015, subdivision 17.

Subd. 2. Prescribe fees. The commissioner may
prescribe fees to be charged for services rendered by the state
or an agency in furnishing to those who request them certified
copies of records or other documents, certifying that records or
documents do not exist and furnishing other reports,
publications, data, or related material which is requested. The
fees, unless otherwise prescribed by law, may be fixed at the
market rate. The commissioner of finance is authorized to
approve the prescribed rates for the purpose of assuring that
they, in total, will result in receipts greater than costs in
the fund. Fees prescribed under this subdivision are deposited
in the state treasury by the collecting agency and credited to
the general services revolving fund. Nothing in this
subdivision permits the commissioner of administration to
furnish any service which is now prohibited or unauthorized by
law.

Subd. 3. Sale of publications. The commissioner may
sell official reports, documents, data, and publications of all
kinds, may delegate their sale to state agencies, and may
establish facilities for their sale within the department of
administration and elsewhere within the state service. The
commissioner may remit a portion of the price of any publication
or data to the agency producing the publication or data. Money
that is remitted to an agency is annually appropriated to that
agency to discharge the costs of preparing the publications or
data.

Subd. 4. Exceptions. This section does not apply to
the Regents of the University of Minnesota or to the state
agricultural society.

Subd. 5. Limitations on subject matter prohibited.
The commissioner may not adopt rules to prescribe the fees
permitted by subdivision 2 or which limit in any way the subject
matter of a report or publication which the law requires or
authorizes an agency to produce.